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Creative differences led to Roth’s departure the following year, but 1984 found the band firing on all cylinders, as Eddie Van Halen embraced his pop sensibilities while retaining the musical adventur

The Grammy-nominated Chester native composed pieces on analog synth for 22 artworks.

Lockdown forced an unexpected creative process on the group’s latest recording. The band members were separated but able to access each other’s contributions online. “It morphed into this beautiful collaborative experience. Ed and I would skype each other. We’d say this is the key, this is the tempo, we’ve got 20 minutes. We’d send each other the rough recordings and listen to them at the same time. Eighty per cent of the songs on the album were written like that,” she said. T...

Quick, think of a jazz instrument. What is it? Chances are you might have a mental picture of a saxophone, trumpet, or drums. Or even a piano. But that black and white keyboard’s kissin’ cousin, the organ (if thought of at all) is probably way down the list. After all, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Thelonious Monk are far better known names than Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, or Richard Holmes. Royal Potato Family album cover Musician Robert Walter—skilled at playing all sorts of electric o...

  Robert Walter has announced his long out-of-print 1996 debut album Spirit of 70 will be reissued May 7 on limited edition 180-gram, purple smoke vinyl and digital formats via RPF Records. Pre-order begins today exclusively on Bandcamp. At the time of its recording, the eight-track LP, that JazzTimes called "cant miss funk," was the second edition in a planned series of solo albums by individual members of The Greyboy Allstars—the band Walter co-founded, and 27 years later continues to pla...

  (This time Comrade Aleks interviews one of the members of the unorthodox Peruvian metal band Kranium, whose roots go back to the early ’90s and whose new album Uma Tullu (which you can stream below) was released on December 1st, 2020.) Kranium is a legend of the Peruvian underground. The band was formed in 1985 as Murder but since 1986 it’s been known as Kranium. Their early material tended towards savage a thrash/death meta, but years passed, some members left and others joined the b...